Students are invited to join NAFB members for our annual convention at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City as part of the Young Professionals Program. Since 2013, the NAFB Young Professionals Program has focused on career development and professionalism for students. We offer this program to approximately 30 college students each year. Student registration is complimentary and NAFB facilitates hotel rooms for attendees. Young Professionals follow a special track during NAFB Convention geared towards them.

At convention, Farm Credit sponsors a Social Media Corps for students. Participants are chosen through a competitive application process.

Each year, the NAFB Foundation offers several $5,000 college scholarships: the Glenn Kummerow Memorial Scholarship, the George Logan Scholarship, the Orion Samuelson Scholarship (sponsored by the CME Group), Noble Research Institute, LLC. These scholarships are recognized at the National NAFB Convention, and the recipients also receive an expense-paid trip to attend the convention as part of the award. Applicants must be a college junior, senior, or graduate student prior to the application deadline and must be enrolled in or transferring to an agricultural communications curriculum with concentration and/or application in broadcast media.

Students are also encouraged to contact their local farm broadcaster about internship opportunities that may be available. Each spring, the NAFB Foundation coordinates a summer internship grant program, sponsored by DuPont Pioneer, for up to 12 stations and networks.

"Being a student member of NAFB has given me the tools to follow my dreams of becoming a farm broadcaster. From networking with members to internship opportunities, I credit NAFB for preparing me for a career in farm broadcasting after I graduate."

Kelsey Litchfield, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, NAFB Student Member

In early 2016, corporate restructuring in RFD TV brought Janet Adkison back to Tennessee, but she kept one foot in the nation’s capital, traveling back for various events. This summer the change is official. Janet is now full-time on the anchor desk welcoming audiences each morning during the Market Day Report and nightly during the Rural Evening News.

Joe Daughhetee (WITY, Danville, IL) graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a BS in accounting and an MS in business. Joe has been in private industry accounting with experience in cost accounting, and for the past 25 years, in public accounting.